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Hmmm - where are the scaling issues with building a Bitcoin exchange!? Am I mad to think it’s trivially scalable?
by andy_ppp 6y ago
Hmmm - where are the scaling issues with building a Bitcoin exchange!? Am I mad to think it’s trivially scalable?
- martinko 6y agoYes, you are mad to think that. You literally have 400k users trying to execute trades in parallel (some many per second) on a common order book. Add leverage, a liquidation engine, etc.
- andy_ppp 6y agoI think my conceptual problem here is what is done on the Bitcoin part and what is done at the exchange level. I thought the Bitcoin network handled that part and obviously I’m wrong about that.
- flyingfences 6y agoScaling with satisfactory security is never trivial.